Core Idea: The Personal Is Political

Question 1

What do radical feminists argue?

Answer 1

• all relationships both in the public sphere and in private relationships are based on power and dominance
• politics are seen as power structures relationships, arrangements whereby one group of persons in controlled by another
• Private relationships are political

Question 2

Quote of Kate Millett (radical feminist)

Answer 2

Patriarchy’s chief institution is the family